AP Deployment Specialist

$52-$53 per hour

Boise,

Contract

Duration: 12 months

• The Senior AP Deployment Specialist serves as a dedicated Accounts Payable Operations representative assigned full-time to the global invoice intake and processing transformation program.

• Acting as the AP Operations throughout the deployment lifecycle, the role supports discovery, process reviews, business requirement validation, testing, deployment readiness, go-live, hyper-care, and stabilization activities.

• The position operates separately from day-to-day Accounts Payable processing teams, allowing business-as-usual operations to remain focused on service delivery while dedicated AP deployment specialists support the transformation program full-time.

• Working closely with country AP teams, the AP Process Transformation & AI Deployment Specialist, Change Management & Training Lead, project teams, and technology partners, the Senior AP Deployment Specialist helps ensure future-state solutions are practical, sustainable, compliant, and aligned with real-world AP operating requirements.

• Throughout discovery, design validation, testing, deployment, hyper-care, and stabilization the AP operations activities

• Ensure documented requirements and configured solutions accurately reflect AP operational needs, controls, exception handling practices, and business requirements.

• Act as the primary working-level representative between AP Operations and the deployment program.

• Champion AP user readiness, operational adoption, and long-term sustainability of future-state processes.

• Participate in country discovery workshops, process walkthroughs, and design discussions.

• Demonstrate and explain current-state AP processes, controls, approval of workflows, exception handling, and operational practices.

• Identify country-specific legal, tax, regulatory, compliance, language, and operational requirements.

• Validate that local requirements are correctly understood and documented.

• Assess operational impacts associated with proposed future-state processes.

• Review and validate Process Design Documents (PDDs), business requirements, process flows, controls, exception scenarios, and operating procedures.

• Confirm that future-state processes accurately reflect AP operational requirements and business realities.

• Evaluate how future-state processes will be operated, supported, and governed by AP after deployment.

• Identify operational gaps, support requirements, ownership requirements, and adoption risks.

• Validate that future-state solutions are scalable, sustainable, and practical for long-term AP operations.

• Develop end-to-end UAT scenarios and business test scripts based on real AP operational activities, controls, and exception handling requirements.

• Prepare and maintain required business test data.

• Execute UAT and validate solutions against approved business requirements.

• Confirm that business outcomes are achieved, not solely that system functions operate.

• Identify defects, process gaps, usability concerns, operational impacts, and business risks.

• Support defect triage, retesting, and business sign-off activities.

• SIT ownership:
  System Integration Testing is performed by the implementation and development teams. The Senior AP Deployment Specialist focuses on business validation and UAT activities.

• Support deployment planning, readiness assessments, cutover activities, and country go-live preparations.

• Confirm operational readiness across users, controls, work instructions, exception handling procedures, and support processes.

• Coordinate deployment of readiness activities with country AP teams.

• Validate user preparedness and operational readiness before deployment.

• Support business go-live activities and the transition into production operations.

• Act as an AP User during go-live and hyper-care activities.

• Support issue identification, investigation, prioritization, escalation, and resolution.

• Monitor user adoption, operational effectiveness, exception trends, and process performance.

• Support the transition from project deployment to steady-state AP ownership and operations.

• Validate that AP teams are fully prepared to own and sustain future-state processes.

• Identify opportunities to improve process effectiveness, user experience,…